Taiwan Affairs Office Responds to Trump’s Repeated Mentions of TSMC

Beijing's decision to field a question about Trump's TSMC commentary — while offering no substantive response — signals that the office is tracking the U.S. president's public engagement with the chipmaker without wanting to elevate it into a formal position. The dynamic matters because TSMC sits at the intersection of U.S. industrial policy and cross-strait politics, and Trump's direct line to its chairman gives Beijing a new channel of U.S. attention to weigh. What's worth watching is whether the Taiwan Affairs Office's non-answer holds as a deliberate posture of restraint or gives way to sharper language if Trump's mentions continue.